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William Patrick Farrell, 25, screams and lunges toward a photographer in a police van on March 3, 1955. Farrell was arrested for the murder of an NYU student named Ann Yarrow the month before.

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Edward Metelski and Paul Semenkewitz, both charged with the murder of a police officer, sit bruised and bleeding after they escaped from Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey and were captured by police on Dec. 18, 1935.

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New York City Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien smashes illegal pinball machines in a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on March 30, 1945.

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Robert "Curly Bill" Naschak, 16, and Ralph Yamicello, 20, are held at the Bergen Street police station on stickup charges on Aug. 1, 1943.

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Frank Lott sits in the 32nd Precinct in Harlem after police beat him for the murder of Officer Francis X. Walsh on Sept. 4, 1961.

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New York Daily News photographer Phil Grietzer is charged by two convicts at the West 68th Street Precinct on Jan. 19, 1955.

A handcuffed LeRoy Luscomb is arrested for first-degree murder, accused of killing his wife with a deer rifle, on April 20, 1943. His wife is on the bed in the rear of the photo.

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From left in uniform: Officers William Moore and John Habermehl hold fragments they believe to be human bones on Dec. 15, 1934. They dug them up in the cellar of a house in Westchester, New York, where Albert Fish murdered Grace Budd.

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A burglary suspect is arrested by two police officers in the Bronx as he descends a fire escape on Dec. 19, 1964.